Why Bother? ~ By Mike Gallagher

By Mike Gallagher When I had the nerve to suggest that since people from Mexico were bringing a deadly swine flu virus into the United States that it might be a good idea to tell them to stop coming by closing the southern border, it took all of about three minutes for a caller to accuse me of being a racist. “Alex” from Southern California said he was an Hispanic man whose family came here from Central America. He could barely contain his indignation. “You conservatives are all alike," he fumed. “I'll bet you didn't call for the same thing when we had the bird flu outbreak from Asia during the Bush Administration.” I tried to be patient. “Alex," I said, “last time I checked, we don't share a border with Asia and since the bird flu was transmitted by birds to humans, not human-to-human (like the swine flu), what should we have done? Stopped birds from migrating?” [Continue reading]

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